Part of The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute SpecialIssue Book Series, Islam, Politics, Anthropology offerscritical reflections on past and current studies of Islam andpolitics in anthropology and charts new analytical approaches toexamining Islam in the post-9/11 world.
* Challenges current and past approaches to the study of Islamand Muslim politics in anthropology
* Offers a critical comprehensive review of past and currentliterature on the subject
* Presents innovative ethnographic description and analysis ofeveryday Muslim politics in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, andNorth America
* Proposes new analytical approaches to the study of Islam andMuslim politics

Notes on Contributors vii
1 Benjamin Soares & Filippo Osella Islam, politics, anthropology 1
2 Samuli Schielke Being good in Ramadan: ambivalence, fragmentation, and the moral self in the lives of young Egyptians 23
3 Hatsuki Aishima & Armando Salvatore Doubt, faith, and knowledge: the reconfiguration of the intellectual field in post-Nasserist Cairo 39
4 Magnus Marsden A tour not so grand: mobile Muslims in northern Pakistan 54
5 Kai Kresse Muslim politics in postcolonial Kenya: negotiating knowledge on the double-periphery 72
6 Rosa De Jorio Between dialogue and contestation: gender, Islam, and the challenges of a Malian public sphere 91
7 Lara Deeb Piety politics and the role of a transnational feminist analysis 107
8 Julie McBrien Mukadas's struggle: veils and modernity in Kyrgyzstan 121
9 Irfan Ahmad Genealogy of the Islamic state: reflections on Maududi's political thought and Islamism 138
10 Maimuna Huq Talking jihad and piety: reformist exertions among Islamist women in Bangladesh 156
11 Daromir Rudnyckyj Market Islam in Indonesia 175
12 Filippo Osella & Caroline Osella Muslim entrepreneurs in public life between India and the Gulf: making good and doing good 194
13 Gregory Starrett Islam and the politics of enchantment 213
Index 231